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==Tawi-tawi folks get health aid== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=792663&publicationSubCategoryId=200 | |||
*March 30, 2012 10:21 AM | |||
:by philstar.com | |||
TAWI-TAWI, Philippines – Unfazed by kidnapping threats, health workers expanded their medical-dental outreach missions to the remotest islands here after being convinced that their patients will provide a thick layer of protection from criminal gangs. | |||
The regional office of the Department of Health in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the office of Tawi-Tawi Gov. Sadikul Sahali indicated that more than 2,000 villagers in islands near the Philippine-Malaysian border have been treated of various ailments. | |||
The latest of the medical missions were held from March 15 to 18 in the island municipalities Sapa-Sapa and Languyan, dozens of miles off the provincial capital in Bongao. | |||
Saberani Saparani, a Samah fisherman, who hails from a coastal village in Sapa-Sapa, said he has long resigned to the fate of not seeing medical workers in their community, until health workers arrived two weeks ago. | |||
ARMM health secretary Kadil Sinolinding said their intensified operations would not materialize if not for the support of the provincial governor, Tawi-Tawi Vice Gov. Ruby Sahali, and the officer-in-charge of the autonomous region, Mujiv Hataman. | |||
Sinolinding said lack of capability, in terms of mobility and other technical requirements, is the main cause of the operational constraint that has been hampering the delivery of health services to very far areas in the island municipalities. | |||
The ARMM, which exists by virtue of its constitutionally-enshrined charter, the R.A. 9054, covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, both in Central Mindanao, the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and the cities of Marawi and Lamitan. | |||
The morale of the rank and file personnel of DOH-ARMM just started to bounce back, dampened by the recent abductions in nearby Sulu province by Abu Sayyaf bandits. | |||
In Tawi-Tawi, health workers have a peculiar sense of security, having that feeling of “protection” from the communities they serve and from the mayors and the provincial governor. | |||
Sahali said they have fund allocations for health and social welfare services for all sectors in the province. | |||
Sinolinding said among their thrusts in the province are the joint safe motherhood and reproductive health; maternal and child health; nutrition and immunization programs of the DOH-ARMM and the central office of the health department. | |||
Majority of Muslim clerics here now supported the DOH’s reproductive health programs in the context of “birth spacing” through natural methods of contraception. | |||
“Birth spacing, to ensure the socio-economic welfare of the entire family, is not a taboo in Islam,” said Imam Esmael Ebrahim of the Ulama Conference of the Philippines, who is a consultant for religious concerns of the DOH-ARMM. | |||
The “Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan” program of the national office of DOH, meant to promote extensive health education to impoverished families in the countryside, has also been fully integrated in the service framework of the municipal and barangay health service facets scattered in the province. | |||
“Ignorance, lack of even just the most basic knowledge on human health is just like a deadly plague than can kill people,” said Sinolinding. | |||
Sinolinding first served as regional health secretary in 2010, under then acting ARMM Gov. Ansaruddin Adiong, and was, subsequently, retained by Hataman, who is to serve as regional chief executive on caretaker basis until 2013. | |||
==189 farmers join vermi composting congress== | |||
*Source: http://www.goldstardailynews.com/-autonomous-region-of-muslim-mindanao-%7C%7C-armm/8902-189-farmers-join-vermi-composting-congress.html | |||
*Thursday, 29 March 2012 | |||
:by PBCHANGCO/ TENGDATU | |||
COTABATO City-- Some 189 farmers, agriculture officials and workers as well as local executives from Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi participated in the 2-day Regional Vermicomposting Congress held March 19-20, 2012 in the city as a continuing promotion of organic farming in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm). The activity was spearheaded by Director Silverio Tejada of the Department of Agriculture- Bureau of Soils and Water Management (DA-BSWM) in coordination with the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries-ARMM (DAF-ARMM) under Regional Secretary Sangcula Tindick. DAF-ARMM regional information division chief Dhigs Abdullah said, the activity is part of strengthening agriculture production in the fi ve provinces through organic farming through vermi composting and rapid composting using the facilities including shredder provided to farmers by DA-BSWM. | |||
Abdullah said that DAFARMM regional secretary strongly urged the participants to fully utilize the facilities and machinery such as the shredder for the production of compost through the assistance of farm technicians not only to ensure increase harvest but also benefi cial to the protection of the environment. BSWM Director Silverio Tejada, on the other hand, called on the farmers particularly the recipients of the 105 shredder machine and vermitea facility to further strengthen practice of organic farming which would generate to increase harvest at a much lower production cost while help restore soil fertility, Abdullah said. Abdul lah said, Tejada warned that unutilized and idle equipment and machinery will be awarded to other farmerbenefi ciaries who are able and willing to use them in pursuit of the rice and food suffi ciency program of the department under RA 10068 - Organic Act of the Philippines. Meanwhile, ARMM executive secretary Atty. Anwar Malang expressed full support to the program as he stressed the importance and potential of organic rice, vegetable and other agricultural products in the local and world markets similar to halal food. | |||
==2007 population, 2010 revalidated figures in ARMM== | |||
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/253053/news/nation/nso-bares-1-08-m-discrepancy-between-2007-population-2010-revalidated-figures-in-armm | |||
*March 28, 2012 3:12pm | |||
:by AMITA O. LEGASPI | |||
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has uncovered a 1.08-million discrepancy in the population of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) based on its 2007 report and their revalidated 2010 figures — an important piece of information for the government as it moves to restore the credibility of the elections in the region. | |||
“Based on their revalidation within, we found out that the population in 2010 was 25 percent lower than what was [initially] reported,” NSO administrator Carmelita Ericta told President Benigno Aquino III Wednesday during a meeting on ARMM voter-registration in Malacañang. | |||
In 2007, the ARMM registered a population of 4.1 million. A revalidation in 2010, however, reduced the figures to 3.2 million. | |||
“When we undertook the 2010 census, we validated the initial counts through the use of satellite maps,” Ericta explained to the President. | |||
She also noted a substantial increase in the population of ARMM—from 2.8 million in 2000 to 4.1 million in 2007. | |||
Ericta said the population rate of the country excluding ARMM grew at 1.89 percent between 2000 and 2007 while ARMM reported a growth of 5.46 percent. | |||
“If you will see the provincial breakdown, Maguindanao had the biggest growth rate of 6.6% followed by Basilan at 6.44%,” she said. | |||
The elections in ARMM, originally scheduled in August last year, were moved to May next year in what the Aquino administration described as a move to restore the credibility of the political exercise there. | |||
Annulment of voters’ registration | |||
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes said they have been cleansing the voters’ registration list in ARMM and they were able to nullify the registration of at least 236,000 double registrants. | |||
He said they are also seriously considering the annulment of the existing voter’s registration in ARMM’s five provinces —Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Basilan — and conduct a new one. | |||
However, the poll body en banc has yet to decide on the matter. | |||
“We’re discussing with [ARMM] Governor [Mujiv] Hataman the probability of having to annul all of the voters’ registration in all the five provinces. We’ll be talking with all of the governors and all of the civil society groups. In fact, I went to Cotabato to talk to them and discuss what are the problems,” Brillantes said. | |||
He said the Comelec will need P430 million for the mobilization, deployment, procurement of machines for the new registration. | |||
Restore credibility | |||
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad assured those in the meeting that they can provide the fund needed. | |||
“I think P430-million, Mr. President, will not be too much compared to the restoration of the credibility of the process there and we can afford that level of investment, Mr. President,” he said. | |||
He said funding the registration is important considering the seriousness of the discrepancies. | |||
“At the end of the day, we have to put more weight in the credibility of the coming political exercises especially since, you know, we’ve laid out an ARMM reform roadmap and the elections is always the… the most observed and an indicator whether we are serious about pursuing reforms in ARMM,” Abad said. | |||
Abad said the fund could be sourced from the budget earlier allocated for the postponed ARMM elections and the President's contingency fund. | |||
In an interview after the meeting, Aquino said he would leave it to the Comelec to decide if the voters’ registration list in the provinces will be annulled or not. | |||
“Comelec will now meet the en banc and decide on exactly how to proceed whether the annulment of the entire registration for the five provinces should be done or can be done and then they will decide and that is the agreement,” he said. | |||
“They will bring it—there is a decision of the en banc that is necessary before you effect the changes in the voters’ list in the ARMM,” he added. - KBK, GMA News | |||
==Suspected human trafficking victims rescued== | ==Suspected human trafficking victims rescued== | ||
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/168017/suspected-human-trafficking-victims-rescued | *Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/168017/suspected-human-trafficking-victims-rescued | ||